⚡️坐车学英语⚡️

telekinesis：名词，指“心灵遥感”，也就是由精神力驱动的隔空移物能力。这个词来自希腊语，tele 意思是长距离，kinēsis 是移动。《X战警》中的凤凰女就拥有此能力（万磁王移动金属的能力到底是磁力还是精神力还在争论中）。

telepathy：名词，读心术，等于 mind reading。读心者是 telepath。这就是《X战警》中X教授的能力。

例文依然来自现代都市灵异文《The Forgotten Dead》by Jordan L Hawk。任职于杜克大学的助理教授 Nigel Taylor 为保住自己这个专业，不得不向外界寻求资金——可对方给钱的条件竟然是让他和网红搭档捉鬼？

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Research into the survival of personality after death didn’t exactly bring in the big money, and hadn’t since the start of the Cold War. Telekinesis, telepathy, remote viewing…all of those could be measured in the lab, demonstrated with numbers and graphs to organizations with deep pockets.
对死后人格存续的研究并没有吸引大笔投资，而且自冷战开始以来就没有过。心灵遥感、读心术、远程感知……所有这些都可以在实验室里被测量，用数字和图表向拥有雄厚资金的组织展示。

Ghosts, though, were another thing.
鬼魂，那就是另一回事了。

Survival research had been hanging by a thread at the institute when his advisor retired and he was hired to take her place. If he wasn’t able to secure a hefty grant today, that thread would be cut.
他的导师退休、他受雇取代她的位置的时候，“生存研究”在所里的存续可谓悬于一线。如果他今天不能获得一笔巨额拨款，这条线就会被切断。

This meeting was supposed to be his chance to salvage it. Patricia Montague was heir to a cigarette company fortune; her family had generously donated money to Duke University’s Institute of Parapsychology from the 1930s to the 80s, when they abruptly withdrew all funds. When she’d contacted him about a new grant for research into the survival of personality after death, it had seemed like the answer to his prayers.
这次会议本该是他力挽狂澜的机会。Patricia Montague 继承了一家烟草公司的巨额财富；她的家族从20世纪30年代起一直向杜克大学的心灵学研究所提供大笔捐助，直到80年代撤回所有资金。当她联系说有一笔新的资金用于研究死后人格存续问题时，他所有的祈祷好像都得到了回应。